The Cowboys have franchised Dez Bryant and are likely to try to sign the wide receiver to a long-term deal. Bryant has been one of the finest receivers in the game for a while now, so it's no surprise that he was equally as impossible to cover in high school:

Playing against a player of Bryant's caliber in high school must not have been easy -- but hey, at least those players got a good story out of it.

Two years removed from a 57-win season -- after which they dismissed coach George Karl and replaced him with Brian Shaw -- the Nuggets entered Sunday with a 20-38 record, meaning the playoffs are simply not happening.

As The Post's Christopher Dempsey points out, this is reminiscent of a 1998 moment in which then-Los Angeles Lakers guard Nick Van Exel, joking (he says) about his team's impending Western Conference finals exit against (coincidentally) the Jazz, chanted in practice, "1-2-3 ... Cancun!" (Even more coincidentally, Van Exel the next season joined the Nuggets.)